Useful github search queries

Search a npm package that is used in a project. This is useful to get ideas of how package is setup and used. github

rbac filename:package.json

Search repos with more than 100 stars. github

 rbac filename:package.json stars:>100

Search repos with more than 100 stars and a javascript repo.github

rbac filename:package.json stars:>100 language:javascript 

Search string ecs in a file with .tf extension. github

ecs extension:tf

Another practical example is to search for content that are usually in a certain path. For example circleci 2.0 files are are stored in <repo-root>/.circleci/config.yml. Say you want to find an example of psql usage in circleci manifest file: github

 psql filename:config.yml path:.circleci